· Private foundation
Carroll Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| HANOVER THEATER | $1,000 |
| OUR LADY OF ANGELS SCHOOL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWORCESTER HIBERNIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +56% · 30% of their budget
- EMEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $32k · revenue +178%
- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- FHFISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +245%
- AANNONYMOUSone grant, 2017 · $7k
WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The worcester business development corporation (wbdc) is a private, non- profit business organization with a public purpose mission to serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the…
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
To provide objective and impartial research and policy analysis in order to promote more efficient, effective and responsible government for the city of boston.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WORCESTER HIBERNIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY ST PATRICK'S PARADE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The George I Alden Trust · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Woosox Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Tonna Charitable Trust · Coghlin Services Fund · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · David R Grenon Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carroll Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carroll Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Veterans Inc: 58% of income from government
- William James College Inc: 11% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc: 10% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum: 5% of income from government
- Assumption University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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